Fantastic Didactic Weekend Flick Pick (June 9-11, 2017): Greg Palast’s ‘The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits’ (2016 Documentary) (VIDEO)

June 10, 2017 staff 0

In this 2016 documentary centered around the 2016 presidential election, investigative reporter Greg Palast and his gumshoe side-kick Badpenny are on a mission to get their hands on the data, analyze it and go find some of these 7.2 million Americans tagged “suspects” and “potential duplicate voters” by Kris Kobach’s Interstate Crosscheck program.

Fantastic Didactic Weekend Flick Pick (May 26-28, 2017): Four Horsemen (2012) [director: Ross Ashcroft] (VIDEO)

May 26, 2017 staff 0

‘Four Horsemen’ is an award-winning, critically acclaimed British documentary feature film directed by Ross Ashcroft, released in the UK on March 14, 2012. The film criticizes the system of fractional reserve banking, debt-based economy and political lobbying by “too big to fail” banks, which it regards as a serious threat not only to liberal, Western-style democracy, but to the entire Western civilization itself.